Posts Tagged with ‘live’

Twing, the Alternate Search Engine

Allan Herman

Twing classifies itself as an alternate search engine and as it notes, only searches forums and forum discussions. Twing also notes that it "…aims to be the most comprehensive and highly targeted forum search engine for real people seeking real discussions and real information in real time." It will be interesting to see if it can truly bring into being what it suggests it can.
Twing, inside and out:
Not having a sufficient theory on just how Twing worked but interested enough to [...]

Soapbox Temporarily Closed

Paul Glazowski

I said a word or two about Soapbox when it went live (publicly) a little over a month ago. And it was kind of good. Not the best of the video hosts. But good. Then a rant about EULAs by John Foster on This Week In Media caught my ear some twelve days after Soapbox’s official launch and had me rethink my feelings about site. My new take had nothing to do with the façade Microsoft laid over the content database, but [...]

Soapbox Goes Live

Paul Glazowski

It’s easy to harp on about Microsoft and its abundance of flaws, but sometimes they do things which are quite good. One of those spiffy deliveries is Soapbox. It’s not the prettiest of video sharing sites, nor is it saturated with the numbers YouTube is said to hold, but it does some things right, and others very right.
It’s not crack-open-the-champagne kind of news that Soapbox has been opened to the public. We’re assuming the event largely went unnoticed. But it means [...]